"Rolling over" the debt means

a. to repay old bonds that come due for payment by issuing new bonds.
b. to repay old bonds that come due by printing money.
c. dividing the tax burden of the debt across the fifty states based on their share of the population.
d. dividing the tax burden of the debt across the fifty states based on their share of economic activity.
e. to repay old bonds that come due by giving gold to the bondholders from the national gold depository in Fort Knox..


A

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